Benefits of Transportation Policy :

* Increase in employee awareness and behavioral changes through training, meeting discussions,video presentations, and other information sharing processes.

* Increase in market demand for, and in turn, market supply of, more environmentally-preferred vehicles and related infrastructure.

* Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and toxic air contaminants.

* Minimization of energy use which in turn, reduces associated environmental impacts.

* Conversion to 100% renewable energy sources.

* Increase in National Energy Security.

* Increase in California-based renewable energy markets and distributed generation.


Energy Policy Institute

The Energy Policy Institute leads a comprehensive and democratic energy policy dialogue that engages regional, national and international communities. Through this dialogic process, EPI maps community perspectives and values and explores the economic and social trade-offs associated with energy production and consumption. By employing collaborative problem-solving and decision-making strategies, EPI informs energy policy formulations to promote secure sustainable energy solutions.

Foreign Policy

* Ordered the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay and a review of our detention and interrogation policy, and prohibited the use of torture.

* Appointed Special Envoys for Climate Change, Southwest Asia, the Middle East, Sudan, and a Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

* Announced a plan to responsibly end the War in Iraq.

* Announced a new strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan.

* Announced a strategy to address the international nuclear threat.

* Agreed to negotiation of a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia.
* Established a new "U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue".

* Announced new policy steps towards Cuba.